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  • The Beginning Comes After the End

    Notes on a World of Change

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERINDEPENDENT PRESS TOP 40 BESTSELLERRebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.**In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Men Explain Things to Me

    The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect "antidote to mansplaining" ( The Stranger).In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Field Guide to Getting Lost

    **“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown**Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in ... Read more

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  • Wanderlust

    A History of Walking

    A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's RosesDrawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Paradise Built in Hell

    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

    The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disasterWhy is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • No Straight Road Takes You There

    Essays for Uneven Terrain

    **New York Times BestsellerIn the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty.**Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No ... Read more

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  • Call Them by Their True Names

    American Crises (and Essays)

    "[A] call to arms that takes on a range of social and political problems in America—from racism and misogyny to climate change and Donald Trump" ( Poets & Writers).National Book Award LonglistWinner of the Kirkus Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Foreword INDIE Editor's Choice Prize for NonfictionRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bests... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • River of Shadows

    Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

    **A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Sally Hacker Prize for the History of Technology“A panoramic vision of cultural change” —The New York TimesThrough the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Orwell's Roses explores what it was about California in the late 19th ... Read more

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  • Hope in the Dark

    Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

    "[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes" ( Vice).A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mother of All Questions

    A collection of feminist essays steeped in "Solnit's unapologetically observant and truth-speaking voice on toxic, violent masculinity" ( The Los Angeles Review).In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cinderella Liberator

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    "What would the world look like if girls grew up reading fairytales made from the magic they carry inside themselves? Breathtakingly beautiful, is what." —Lidia Yuknavich, national bestselling authorIn her debut children's book, Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella and new plot twists that will inspire young readers to change the world, featuring gorgeous ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whose Story Is This?

    Old Conflicts, New Chapters

    Feminist essays for the #MeToo era from "the voice of the resistance," the international bestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me ( The New York Times Magazine).Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and ... Read more

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